03-29-2008, 03:39 PM
nlp also has an interest in stopping the internal dialogue in order to better observe ourselves and our surroundings, and to stop limiting beliefs that we self-talk about.
One method to achieve this is to physically grab your tongue with your fingers, or stick it out and bite it, or, more subtly, just stick it to the roof of your mouth. Whichever method, hold the tongue still for a minute or two and you may find the ID quiets down. This is based on observations that the mind and body are linked systems and that as we ID, there are micro-muscular movements in the tongue - so if we stop the movements, we stop the ID.
Something else to be observed is that, depending on what you want to achieve with the ID stopping, it may not need to be stopped. What I mean is, if you're not going for inner silence but just have a bothersome dialogue, the judge or critic, going on, you can greatly influence this by simply altering some quality of the ID; it needn't be stopped altogether for this purpose.
For example, if you're ID is telling you, perhaps in your mother's voice, that you're not good enough, simply alter the voice so that it sounds like Elmo, or John Wayne, or Curly from the three stooges, or whatever works for you. The voice can say the same words, but they won't feel the same and you won't have the same experience/reaction. Instead of feeling down and incapable, you may laugh and feel more confident.
Try it. It's easy.
Much of our personal history can be altered in this way, not just with voices, but in changing certain qualities of the remembered experience. In nlp these are called sub-modalities. They refer to qualities of sensory items in your memory. This is based on the observation that 'the map is not the territory', which in CC means your description of reality is but one of a million descriptions. The description is not the reality/actuality, but our personal interpretation of it. We needn't change actuality; we need only see other descriptions and our belief or view will be loosened and liberated and re-merge with chaos/infinity (one of a million instead of "mine" or "the truth").
Anyway, examples of submodalities are like.... well, first remember an event, then notice how your memory may be bright or dark, clear or dim, in color or black and white, near or distant... these are visual submodalities. There are also auditory and kinesthetic (feeling) submodalities, all of which, if you play around with modulating them, will alter your experience/description of the event.
So, if you play with this a while, it'll be apparent that we can stalk others too and, via establishing rapport - pacing and leading - we can alter their view of reality through suggestions of other submodalities, which will happen quite unnoticed by them. It'll appear to them that they're just having a conversation, but afterwards they won't be able to feel the same about their issue.
One method to achieve this is to physically grab your tongue with your fingers, or stick it out and bite it, or, more subtly, just stick it to the roof of your mouth. Whichever method, hold the tongue still for a minute or two and you may find the ID quiets down. This is based on observations that the mind and body are linked systems and that as we ID, there are micro-muscular movements in the tongue - so if we stop the movements, we stop the ID.
Something else to be observed is that, depending on what you want to achieve with the ID stopping, it may not need to be stopped. What I mean is, if you're not going for inner silence but just have a bothersome dialogue, the judge or critic, going on, you can greatly influence this by simply altering some quality of the ID; it needn't be stopped altogether for this purpose.
For example, if you're ID is telling you, perhaps in your mother's voice, that you're not good enough, simply alter the voice so that it sounds like Elmo, or John Wayne, or Curly from the three stooges, or whatever works for you. The voice can say the same words, but they won't feel the same and you won't have the same experience/reaction. Instead of feeling down and incapable, you may laugh and feel more confident.
Try it. It's easy.
Much of our personal history can be altered in this way, not just with voices, but in changing certain qualities of the remembered experience. In nlp these are called sub-modalities. They refer to qualities of sensory items in your memory. This is based on the observation that 'the map is not the territory', which in CC means your description of reality is but one of a million descriptions. The description is not the reality/actuality, but our personal interpretation of it. We needn't change actuality; we need only see other descriptions and our belief or view will be loosened and liberated and re-merge with chaos/infinity (one of a million instead of "mine" or "the truth").
Anyway, examples of submodalities are like.... well, first remember an event, then notice how your memory may be bright or dark, clear or dim, in color or black and white, near or distant... these are visual submodalities. There are also auditory and kinesthetic (feeling) submodalities, all of which, if you play around with modulating them, will alter your experience/description of the event.
So, if you play with this a while, it'll be apparent that we can stalk others too and, via establishing rapport - pacing and leading - we can alter their view of reality through suggestions of other submodalities, which will happen quite unnoticed by them. It'll appear to them that they're just having a conversation, but afterwards they won't be able to feel the same about their issue.